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This book was described as a classic about Mexican healer women, which was influential in helping the author write his book 'The Hummingbird's Daughter'. The author of 'Bless Me Ultima' gave advice that the author of this podcast episode carried with him while writing, which is that a writer should make a grandmother from Tijuana the grandmother of readers from other places, which he described as a political and religious act.
There's a great Mexican-American novelist named Rudolfo Anaya. A lot of people don't know him.
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This book was described as a classic about Mexican healer women, which was influential in helping the author write his book 'The Hummingbird's Daughter'. The author of 'Bless Me Ultima' gave advice that the author of this podcast episode carried with him while writing, which is that a writer should make a grandmother from Tijuana the grandmother of readers from other places, which he described as a political and religious act.
There's a great Mexican-American novelist named Rudolfo Anaya. A lot of people don't know him.
He wrote kind of a classic novel called Bless Me Ultima, which was when I was growing up the book about Mexican healer women.
And I owe a lot to that book for figuring out how to do Hummingbird's Daughter.
But when I was a kid, he told me this amazing thing. He said if you, in your writing, can make your Tijuana grandmother the grandmother of a reader in Iowa or Nebraska, he said you have committed the strongest religious and political act in the world.
Episode: [Unedited] Luis Alberto Urrea with Krista Tippett
This novel, about Mexican healer women, was cited as an influence on Urrea's writing, particularly for his book *The Hummingbird's Daughter*. It was used as an example of how writing can create a sense of shared family and experience across different cultures.
There's a great Mexican American novelist named Rudolfo Anaya. A lot of people don't know him, but he wrote a kind of a classic novel called Bless Me Ultima, which was when I was growing up the book about Mexican healer women.
And I owe a lot to that book for figuring out how to do Hummingbird's Daughter.
But when I was a kid, he told me this amazing thing. He said, if you in your writing can make your Tijuana grandmother, the grandmother of a reader in Iowa or Nebraska, he said you have committed the strongest religious and political act in the world.